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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift | CBC.ca2024-03-23T19:44:32+00:00
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7032238
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https://www.citationneeded.news/effective-obfuscation/
robertogrecoeffectiveaccelerationism effectivealtruism 2023 e-acc accelerationism mollywhite marcandreessen siliconvalley californianideology technology technosolutionism technodeterminism technooptimismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aab8d0176af0/Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation2024-02-24T01:24:21+00:00
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/secularization-comes-for-the-religion
robertogrecolmsacasas 2024 technooptimism secularism religion culture ideology secularization manifestos charlestaylor technology technosolutionism christianity progress davidnoble scientificrevolution science davidnye goldengatebridge atomicbomb hooverdam cities perrymiller railroads history utopia leomarx historyoftechnology cyrusmccormick charlesgoodyear samuelcolt eliashowe christianschussele samuelmorse johngast manifestdestiny us crystalpalace west uk frederickcook henryadams williammckinley robertrydell worldsfairs innovation providence corporations civilreligion marcandreessen counterreformation openai samaltman ai artificialintelligence francisbacon effectiveaccelerationism e-acc accelerationism effectivealtruism 2023 siliconvalley californianideology technodeterminism railways trains railhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d00cdd41366b/The cruelty of crypto in its promise to revive the American dream | Aeon Essays2024-02-22T04:50:03+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/the-cruelty-of-crypto-in-its-promise-to-revive-the-american-dream
robertogreco2024 rachelo'dwyer economics scams crypto cryptocurrencies inequality fraud computing blockchain investment markets gamestop frake wallstreetbets memestocks stocks stockmarket race vulnerability peterthiel elonmusk individualism libertarianism technologicaldeterminism californianideology sambankman-fried bitcoin 2008 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis poverty generationalwealth lebronjames crypto.com mattdamon risk risktaking betting gambling ponzischemes mlmhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae2db129e615/Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco2024-02-02T03:46:27+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jK9asi_jaM
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/
robertogrecocharliestross scifi sciencefiction siliconvalley californianideology technology billionaires aihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:91eae29e895e/Creative Good: Marc Andreessen is right – love doesn’t scale2024-01-11T07:00:27+00:00
https://creativegood.com/blog/23/andreessen-love-doesnt-scale.html
robertogreco2023 markhurst marcandreessen love scale scaling scalability siliconvalley californianideology regulation human humanism small slow technology capitalism edpark bengrosser effectiveaccelerationism effectivealtruism e-acc accelerationism technosolutionism technodeterminism technooptimismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ccd07e17da2/Leaving Substack (Again)2023-12-30T03:24:47+00:00
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/leaving-substack-again/
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https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
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https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/san-francisco-silicon-valley-eugenics/
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https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/magazine/california-future.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLtwiP0uoo
robertogrecomalcolmharris timnitgebru 2023 siliconvalley history economics california technology ai artificialintelligence californianideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b98062f57232/Silicon Valley Bank has gone bust?! Cue the schadenfreude … | The Star2023-03-19T05:34:25+00:00
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/03/18/silicon-valley-bank-has-gone-bust-cue-the-big-tech-schadenfreude-.html
robertogreconavneetalang siliconvalley siliconvalleybank californianideology libertarianism 2023 evil behavior banking risk facebook meta socialmedia society polarization politics technology recklessness teslahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92e4020dda19/The Untold History of Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us2023-02-17T18:56:03+00:00
https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_silicon_valley_w_malcolm_harris
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https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/12/17/the-white-tech-bro-era-of-social-media-is-over-thank-goodness.html
robertogreco2022 navnneetalang socialmedia future decentralization mastodon twitter tiktok facebook californianideology meta markzuckerberg elonmusk technosolutionism marcandreessen chatgpt chatbots jackdorsey harassment diversity spam bots townsquare online internet web control power moderation networkeffects peterthiel davidsackshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbd32664ff6c/Computer user interfaces just got smarter; this is worrying | The Star2022-12-10T20:44:31+00:00
https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/12/10/voice-user-interfaces-on-computers-just-got-smarter-and-this-should-worry-us.html
robertogreconavneetalang 2022 ai artificialintelligence openai chat dystopia californianideology technosolutionism bias biases ghatgpt socalmedia algorythms injustice socialjustice inequality robots society hunger siliconvalley behavior capitalism discourse twitter oversight prejudice misinformation information efficiency humanism synthesis elonmusk samaltmanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1069df9c3c5/Among the Reality Entrepreneurs | The Point Magazine2022-10-03T07:03:25+00:00
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/among-the-reality-entrepreneurs/
robertogrecourbit 2022 capitalism crypto web3 peterthiel libertarianism culture politics cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies bitcoin feudalism tradcath traditionalcatholicism religion nyc dimessquare justinmurphy marsreview marsreviewofbooks elonmusk jackparson cults nicowalker honorlevy seanthorconroe conspiracytheories nfts taolin benlerner rachelcusk karloveknausgaard autofiction decentralization californianideology galenwolfe-pauly tlon neoreactionaries samfrank stevebannon miloyiannopoulos curtisyarvin jamesduesterberghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a65afdfb8510/Tech Won't Save Us: The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand w/ Malcolm Harris on Apple Podcasts2022-08-02T13:47:41+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-legacy-of-stewart-brand-w-malcolm-harris/id1507621076?i=1000571424334
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/waymo-cars-and-honey-bears
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pplRnSOOiZw
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http://chrisnovello.com/teaching/risd/computer-utopias/
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http://hackeducation.com/2019/11/28/ed-tech-agitprop
robertogreco2019 audreywatters edtech agitprop dystopia technology storytelling propaganda pressreleases capitalism neoliberalism benjamindoxtdator economics education learning highered highereducation johnseelybrown davos worldeconomicforum power money motivation purpose howwelearn relationships howweteach schools schooling disruption robots productivity futurism robertgordon change history jilllepore security justice society socialjustice technosolutionism californianideology work labor future machines modernismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:625acc5e4bc0/Spaces of the Learning Self - e-flux Architecture - e-flux2019-11-28T20:38:52+00:00
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/superhumanity/68717/spaces-of-the-learning-self/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgLk5AObao
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https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/uber-undone-kulwin
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/silicon-valleys-crisis-of-conscience
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https://wrenchinthegears.com/?s=+Toxic+Philanthropy
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https://medium.com/@monteiro/ayn-rand-is-a-dick-8ed7ed5a8072
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https://theweek.com/articles/834137/andrew-yang-most-radical-2020-candidate##Going+all+the+way+back+to+the+Roman+republic%2C+the+owners+of+wealth+have+repeatedly+sought+to+maximize+their+share+of+the+common+weal+at+the+expense+of+those+who+work+for+them%2C+leading+to+periodic+crises+as+the+plebes+rise+up+and+demand+a+fairer+share.+We+may+be+in+another+such+moment.+Sanders%27s+theory+of+political+change+revolves+around+a+political+revolution+%E2%80%94+a+citizenry+mobilized+by+a+champion+of+conviction+who+wins+a+sweeping+majority+to+enact+his+transformative+agenda.+Warren%27s+theory+of+political+change+is+less+clearly+articulated%2C+but+her+solutions+aim+to+build+lasting+support+by+giving+a+vast+array+of+workers+and+small+businesspeople+a+stake+in+a+more+competitive+and+less+oligopolistic+economy.+But+both+imagine+a+world+still+anchored+by+work%2C+and+getting+workers+a+fair+share.+If+that+world+is+passing+away%2C+then+we+ought+to+be+facing+the+happy+problem+Marx+described%2C+where+%22society+regulates+the+general+production+and+thus+makes+it+possible+for+me+to+do+one+thing+today+and+another+tomorrow%2C+to+hunt+in+the+morning%2C+fish+in+the+afternoon%2C+rear+cattle+in+the+evening%2C+criticize+after+dinner%2C+just+as+I+have+a+mind.%22+But+the+rub+has+always+been+who+that+%22society%22+actually+is.+If+a+productive+interdependency+is+going+to+be+replaced+by+an+outright+dependency%2C+then+even+if+that+dependency+is+as+benevolently+administered+as+Yang+hopes+it+might+be%2C+we+face+the+prospects+of+a+more+profound+social+revolution+than+he+has+bargained+for.
robertogrecopolitics californianIdeology technopoly andrewyang technosolutionism elections policy 2019 2020 society wealth berniesanders elizabethwarren karlmarx interdependency dependency universalbasicincome revolution radicalism via:ayjayhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9a355ea221cc/San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City | Public Books2019-03-31T22:55:52+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/san-francisco-or-how-to-destroy-a-city/
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https://twitter.com/byers90/status/1071733541619318784
robertogrecojackdorsey buddhism religion meditation compassion empathy metrics gamification spirituality quantification vipassana sambyers individualism materialism capitalism us self-certainty solipsism cynicism siliconvalley californianideology ideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:768d97e384b9/an xiao mina on Twitter: "The Silicon Valley version of Vipassana meditation is an extension of much of the US iteration of Buddhism — a lot of focus on mindfulness and individual suffering, without paying attention to the larger discourse of Buddhist e2018-12-14T21:56:39+00:00
https://twitter.com/anxiaostudio/status/1071832768529612800
robertogreco individualist, capitalist, goal-oriented. We could say the same of yoga."
[referencing this thread, I think, by Jack Dorsey
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1071575088695140353 ]]]>buddhism us religion individualism mindfulness interconnected interconnectedness capitalism goals morality 2018 anxiaomina jackdorsey vipassana californianideology siliconvalleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1853475a5f07/Bay Area Disrupted: Fred Turner on Vimeo2018-12-01T21:16:03+00:00
https://vimeo.com/110557774
robertogrecofredturner counterculture california opensource bayarea google softare web internet history sanfrancisco anarchism siliconvalley creativity freedom individualism libertarianism 2014 social sociability governance myth government infrastructure research online burningman culture style ideology philosophy apolitical individuality apple facebook startups precarity informal bureaucracy prejudice 1960s 1970s bias racism classism exclusion inclusivity inclusion communes hippies charism cultofpersonality whiteness youth ageism inequality poverty technology sharingeconomy gigeconomy capitalism economics neoliberalism henryford ford empowerment virtue us labor ork disruption responsibility citizenship purpose extraction egalitarianism society edtech military 1940s 1950s collaboration sharedconsciousness lsd music computers computing utopia tools techculture location stanford sociology manufacturing values socialchange communalism technosolutionism business entrepreneurship open liberalism commons peerproduction producthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9d549f5653b/The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog” | The New Yorker2018-11-18T06:35:21+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-complicated-legacy-of-stewart-brands-whole-earth-catalog
robertogrecostewartband wholeearthcatalog technosolutionism technology libertarianism 2018 annawiener babyboomers boomers millennials generations longnow longnowfoundation siliconvalley philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy politics economics government time apathy apolitical californianideology stevenpinker jennyholzer change handwashing peterthiel pierreomidyar bayarea donaldtrump michaellewis jerrybrown california us technolibertarianism charities charitableindustrialcomplex genyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dd41d8b659b0/Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet2018-05-26T19:57:13+00:00
https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-internet.html
robertogrecocalifornianideology jaronlanier internet future 2018 politics behavior web online siliconvalleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8de3596f01ed/OCCULTURE: 67. Carl Abrahamsson & Mitch Horowitz in “Occulture (Meta)” // Anton LaVey, Real Magic & the Nature of the Mind2018-02-25T19:40:38+00:00
https://45minuteradiohour.libsyn.com/67-carl-abrahamsson-mitch-horowitz-in-occulture-meta-anton-lavey-spiritual-migration-re-enchanting-the-mind-0
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https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html
robertogrecojohnperrybarlow individualism californianideology libertarianism internet web online 2018 open openness creativity liberty cyberspace justice socialjustice humanrights race racism inclusion inclusivity openweb aprilglaser government governance law eff policy corporatism surveillance edwardsnowden nsa netneutrality sopa pipa fcc privilege power prejudicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c8eef969041/I Want it All Now! Documentary on Marin County (1978) - YouTube2018-01-08T06:16:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFpMoEttjvA
robertogrecomarin towatch 1978 bayarea marincounty 1970s 1960s history narcissism wealth happiness psychology self self-help selfishness race racism suburbs sanfrancisco capitalism californianideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:267bd9391404/More Seymours than Women: Imaginaries of Tomorrow - Long View on Education2017-10-14T21:02:38+00:00
http://www.longviewoneducation.org/more-seymours-than-women-is-this-the-future-of-educational-change/
robertogreco“Yet their likely outcomes, their aspirations, and even the place they live – a seaside English town – are routinely condemned as failures by the dominant educational discourse. Unless they get results they can’t get, aspire to jobs they don’t want, and move to a place they do not wish to live in, then they have failed the social mobility test. They are undeserving. And the conditions which our society reserves for those who cannot or will not ‘escape’ from the reality of their lives are grim, and getting grimmer: zero-hours contracts, below-poverty pay, insecure housing, a punitive benefits system, and the gradual withdrawal of all manner of support from education, health and social services.”
So, we face a futurist deficit that we must address, not by keeping the same questions and filling out the ranks with ‘diverse’ people, but by asking better questions. In an article called Where are the Black Futurists?(2000), the author (listed as ‘Black Issues’) reflects on an all white male C-SPAN futurist panel:
“there are too many people talking about the future without considering the future of African Americans and other people of color.
By not considering us, is the majority implicitly suggesting that we don’t matter? Do they think that as America ages, we will continue to play the traditional service and support roles for their communities? When I hear estimates from the U.S. Department of Labor that we’ll need nearly a million home health aides in the next decade, and I know that most home health aides now are Black and Brown women, I conclude that unless the wage structure changes, the future implications for those women and their families are frightening.
But the futurists mainly seem to be predicting what an aging society will need without predicting who will provide it.”
I write from a privileged position, working in a well-resourced and professionally supportive international school. My students have sources of privilege and power in their lives, and I’m pretty confident that many will be able to fit into the standard futurist imaginaries because of a good education and how privilege has shaped their life chances. It’s especially because of my context that I resist the imaginaries that will leave many behind. Schools need to change and be better to serve youth, and not just serve them up to grim futurist imaginaries."]]>benjamindoxtdator diversity gender education thoughtleaders willrichardson brucedixon privilege power economics futurism futurists future edtech labor society inequality capitalism 2017 californianideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41d17a5107dd/Prince, tech, and the Californian Ideology - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis2016-05-01T01:31:25+00:00
http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2016/04/prince-tech-and-californian-ideology.html
robertogrecoPrince, who died Thursday at 57, understood how technology spread ideas better than almost anyone else in popular music. And so he became something of a hacker, upending the systems that predated him and fighting mightily to pioneer new ones. Sometimes he hated technology, sometimes he loved it. But more than that, at his best Prince was technology, a musician who realized that making music was not his only responsibility, that his innovation had to extend to representation, distribution, transmission and pure system invention.
Many advances in music and technology over the last three decades — particularly in the realm of distribution — were tried early, and often first, by Prince. He released a CD-ROM in 1994, Prince Interactive, which featured unreleased music and a gamelike adventure at his Paisley Park Studios. In 1997, he made the multi-disc set “Crystal Ball” set available for sale online and through an 800 number (though there were fulfillment issues later). In 2001, he began a monthly online subscription service, the NPG Music Club, that lasted five years.
These experiments were made possible largely because of Prince’s career-long emphasis on ownership: At the time of his death, Prince reportedly owned the master recordings of all his output. With no major label to serve for most of the second half of his career and no constraints on distribution, he was free to try new modes of connection.
No musician of our time understood technology better than Prince — but he wasn’t interested in being stuffed into the Procrustean bed of technologies owned by massive corporations. He wanted to own his turf and to be free to cultivate it in ways driven by his own imagination.
The megatech companies’ ability to convince us that they are not Big Business but rather just open-minded, open-hearted, exploratory technological creators is perhaps the most powerful and influential — and radically misleading — sales jobs of the past 25 years. The Californian ideology has become our ideology. Which means that many people cannot help seeing skepticism about the intentions some of the biggest companies in the world as “blaming technology.” But that way Buy n Large lies."]]>alanjacobs prince technology socialmedia twitter copyright music ownership 2016 californianideology facebook snapchat instagramhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26e196046f36/crap futures — constraint no. 2: legacies of the past2016-01-12T06:27:56+00:00
http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/134923133759/constraint-no-2-legacies-of-the-past
robertogreco"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time." — Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
It is true that laws sometimes outstay their welcome or impede progress. The slow pace at which laws change becomes more and more apparent as the pace of innovation increases. But there are positive as well as negative constraints, and laws often constrain us for good (which of course is their supposed function). At best, they check our impulses, give us a cooling off period, prevent us from tearing everything down at a whim.
So the law can be a force for good. But then of course - good, bad, or ineffectual - there are always those who find ways to circumvent the law. Jonathan Swift wrote: ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ With their shock-and-awe tactics, companies like Uber manage to overcome traditional legal barriers by moving faster than local laws or simply being big enough to shrug off serious legal challenges.
Technology is evolutionary. (See Heilbroner’s quote in the future nudge post.) Comparisons between natural and technological evolution have been a regular phenomenon since as far back Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin’s revolutionary work inspired philosophers, writers, and anthropologists - Marx and Engels, Samuel Butler, Augustus Pitt-Rivers - to suggest that technological artefacts evolve in a manner similar to natural organisms. This essentially means that technological development is unidirectional, and that radical new possibilities do not happen.
Viewing technology in evolutionary terms would appear to constrain us to only the possibilities that we could reasonably ‘evolve’ into. But this does not have to be the case: natural evolution works by random mutation and natural selection with no ‘plan’ as such, whereas technological innovation and product design are firmly teleologic (literally ‘end-directed’). In other words, the evolutionary model of technological change ignores basic human agency. While natural organisms can’t dip into the historical gene pool to bring back previous mutations, however useful they might be, innovators and designers are not locked into an irreversible evolutionary march and can look backward whenever they choose. So why don’t they? It is a case - circling back to constraint no. 1 - of thinking under the influence of progress dogma."]]>crapfutures constraints darwin evolution innovation future progress progressdogma transportation infrastructure law legal time pace engels friedrichengels technology californianideology emmagoldman anarchism insurance policy electricity nikolatesla thomasedison systems systemsthinking jonathanswift samuelbutler karlmarx longnow bighere augustuspitt-rivers 2015 charlesdarwinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3f21afca119/crap futures — constraint no. 1: progress dogma2016-01-12T06:22:58+00:00
http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/134529897709/constraint-no-1-progress-dogma
robertogrecocrapfutures raybradbury design titanic dinosaurs sciencefiction scifi innovation constraints progress technology systemsthinking time longnow bighere skepticism timesafari implications consequences caution positivism future duediligence diligence change ecosystems californianideology 2015https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dbcc52ff5d70/Imperial Designs | The Unforgiving Minute2015-11-19T06:11:00+00:00
http://currion.net/2015/11/imperial-designs/
robertogrecodesignimperialism design via:tealtan humanitariandesign 2015 africa paulcurrion control colonialism technology technosolutionism evgenymorozov siliconvalley philosophy politics mooc moocs doublebind education bostondynamics googlex darpa robots californianideology yuvalnoahharari wikihouse globalconstructionset 3dprinting disobedientobjects anarchism anarchy legibility internet online web nezaralsayyad smarthphones mobile phones benedictevans migration refugees fiveeyes playpumps water chandbaori trevorpaglen yuvalhararihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c0b41319eb2/Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education2015-10-18T06:58:08+00:00
https://hackeducation.com/2015/10/15/technoimperialism
robertogrecoIn theory and to a significant extent in practice, anyone from anywhere in California could, if they worked hard enough, get a bachelor’s degree from one of the best universities in the country (and, therefore, in the world), almost free of charge. The pronounced social and economic mobility of the postwar period would have been unthinkable without institutions of mass higher education, like this one, provided at public expense.
When Reagan took office as Governor of California in 1967, he made it clear: public expenses would be curbed, particularly in the university system. “There are certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without,” he told reporters. Taxpayers, he said, should not be “subsidizing intellectual curiosity.” The purpose of college, in other words, was not to offer what we’ve long construed as a liberal arts education; the purpose of higher education: to learn “job skills.”
The tech industry is just the latest to latch onto this argument. “Everyone should learn to code,” we now hear.
And as the state of California – and elsewhere – has withdrawn its financial commitment to free or subsidized public higher education, who has stepped in to meet the demands? The for-profit sector.
And the tech industry is latching onto this market as well."
…
"Tim Draper’s (unconstitutional) plan to split up the state of California would have completely reshaped American politics. It failed, but I think it underscores the sort of transformative vision – “the Silicon Valley narrative,” the “Californian Ideology” – that the tech industry has. This vision is not simply about “the virtual world.”
We in education would be naive, I think, to think that the designs that venture capitalists and technology entrepreneurs have for us would be any less radical than creating a new state, like Draper’s proposed state of Silicon Valley, that would enormously wealthy and politically powerful.
When I hear talk of “unbundling” in education – one of the latest gerunds you’ll hear venture capitalists and ed-tech entrepreneurs invoke, meaning the disassembling of institutions into products and services – I can’t help but think of the “unbundling” that Draper wished to do to my state: carving up land and resources, shifting tax revenue and tax burdens, creating new markets, privatizing public institutions, redistributing power and doing so explicitly not in the service of equity or justice.
Echoes of imperialism. Imperialism’s latest form."]]>california californianideology capitalism commodification education technology neoliberalism 2015 audreywatters timdraper aaronbady mikekonczal ronaldreagan richardbarbrook andycameron libertarianism inequality infrastructure privatization unbundling markzuckerberg facebook evgenymorozov connectivity injustice losangeles internet web online netneutrality politics policy economics californiamasterplan masterplanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5cc59a1b1b63/Apple’s Modernism, Google’s Modernism: Some reflections on Alphabet, Inc. and a suggestion that modernist architect Adolf Loos would be totally into Soylent | Works Cited2015-08-13T16:15:20+00:00
http://natalia.cecire.org/research/apples-modernism-googles-modernism-some-reflections-on-alphabet-inc-and-a-suggestion-that-modernist-architect-adolf-loos-would-be-totally-into-soylent/
robertogrecomodernism 2015 apple google siliconvalley design economics atemporality robrinehart adolfloos childhood primitivism developmentalism aphabet puerility naomischor siannengai power systemsthinking displacement innovation ideology californianideology history newness exploitation labor segregation hierarchy technology technosolutionism domination nataliacecirehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4397a2a02f9c/more on the "Californian ideology" - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis2015-06-04T01:36:48+00:00
http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2015/06/more-on-californian-ideology.html
robertogrecoThe “religion of technology” is not itself new. The late historian David Noble, in his book by that title, traced its origins in a particular strain of Christianity which saw technology as means of reversing the effects of the Fall. What is new, and perhaps alarming, is that the most influential sector of the economy is awash in this sea of faith, and that its ethos in Silicon Valley is particularly unfriendly to human life as the middle classes know it. The general optimism about divinization in Silicon Valley motivates a widespread (though by no means universal) disregard for, and even hostility toward, material culture: you know, things like bodies (which Silva calls “skin bags”) and jobs which involve them.
The very fact that Silicon Valley has incubated this new religious culture unbeknownst to most of the outside world suggests how insulated it is. On the one hand, five minutes spent listening to the CEO of Google or some other tech giant will show you how differently people in Silicon Valley think from the rest of the country — listen carefully and you realize most of them simply assume there will be massive unemployment in the coming decades — and how unselfconscious most are of their differences. On the other hand, listen to mainstream East Coast journalists and intellectuals, and you would think a kind of ho-hum secularism, completely disinterested in becoming gods, is still the uncontested norm among modern elites.
If religion makes a comeback, but this is the religion that comes back....
More on this later, but for now just one brief note about bodies as "skin bags": in the opening scene of Mad Max: Fury Road, Max is captured and branded and used to provide blood transfusions to an ill War Boy named Nux. Nux calls Max "my blood bag." Hey, it's only a body."]]>alanjacobs californianideology samuelloncar 2015 davidnoble christianity siliconvalley technology technosolutionism faith economicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:296b1a62c6d4/Ed-Tech and the Californian Ideology2015-05-18T03:51:29+00:00
https://hackeducation.com/2015/05/17/ed-tech-ideology
robertogrecoedtech audreywatters technology education history californianideology siliconvalley policy politics ideology 2015 colonization manifestdestiny economics neoliberalism libertarianismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b54d0dbd61b2/rant of the day - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis2015-04-14T20:48:38+00:00
http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2015/04/rant-of-day.html
robertogrecoalanjacobs nedo'gorman maciejceglowski labor inequality iot internetofthings 2015 helloalfred alfred servants gildedage siliconvalley californianideology domesticworkers distancing othering taskrabbit sharingeconomy outsourcing chores homemaking domesticwork ethics agency capitalism latecapitalism maciejcegłowskihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c4130c803e7/The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy' | Cities | The Guardian2015-01-07T07:12:51+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase
robertogrecosmartcities cities surveillance technology stevenpoole democracy 2014 usmanhaque danhill adamgreenfield songdo medellín leohollis urbanurbanism data internetofthings networkedobjects californianideology juliaalexander communities medellin colombia iothttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24c11377b43b/Your Job is Political: Tech Money in Politics2014-12-23T00:48:06+00:00
http://kelseyinnis.com/blog/2014/12/19/your-job-is-political-tech-money-in-politics/
robertogrecopolitics money california kelseyinnis 2014 influence power sixcalifornias corporatism technology siliconvalley wealth rockershipschools johndanner reedhastings timdraper proposition38 proposition39 privatization schools californianideology venturecapital lobbying petewilson greydavis arthurrock menloventures accelpartners benchmarkcapital kleinerperkins johndoerr publiceducation publicschools vouchers blendedlearning edtech ronconway charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d4f438c6426/The Myth of Magical Futures — Kate Losse2014-09-16T19:57:40+00:00
http://www.katelosse.tv/latest/2014/9/12/magical-futures
robertogrecokatelosse siliconvalley sexism internet culture business women technosolutionism peterthiel gender californianideology meritocracy facebook markzuckerberg vc venturecapital technology libertarianismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb51afdde413/Metafoundry 4: Indicator Species2014-08-22T08:33:23+00:00
http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-4-indicator-species
robertogrecodebchachra siliconvalley scottsmith technology 2014 startups systemsthinking ecosystems echochambers vc gender power money google facebook apple sanfrancisco economics society labor influence policy politics californianideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:174d00edf06b/3-D print your way to freedom and prosperity | Al Jazeera America2014-07-10T11:21:42+00:00
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/3d-printing-politics.html
robertogreco3dprinting culture technology ideology californianideology individualism economics society 2014 jathansadowski paulmanson policy politics markets idealism robertputman sharonzukin chrisanderson corydoctorow makers makermovement hackerspaces makerspaceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:880bb8898b24/Alex Payne — Dear Marc Andreessen2014-06-18T06:40:49+00:00
https://al3x.net/2014/06/17/dear-marc-andreessen.html
robertogrecoautomation capitalism economics inequality alexpayne socialsafetynet 2014 marcandreessen libertarianism technosolutionism californianideology neoliberalism miltonfriedman technology marxismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:895ef803c765/Marc Andreessen and the Inevitability of Catastrophic Ideas - The Awl2014-06-17T22:44:28+00:00
http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/marc-andreessen-and-the-inevitability-of-catastrophic-ideas
robertogrecotechnosolutionism disruption ideology siliconvalley californianideology libertarianism inequality humanities mariabustillos 2014 marcandreessenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a4bacfc0a4d4/Episode One Hundred: Taking Stock; And The New2014-06-12T07:19:54+00:00
http://tinyletter.com/danhon/letters/episode-one-hundred-taking-stock-and-the-new
robertogrecodanhon 2014 californianideology howwethink brain algorithms libertarianism progress technology technosolutionism ideology belief intentionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:120a647cce27/Episode Eighty Six: Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next2014-05-23T22:26:41+00:00
http://tinyletter.com/danhon/letters/episode-eighty-six-solid-2-of-2-requests-gov-uk-2018-next
robertogrecodanhon 2014 siliconvalley ai empathy problemsolving society californianideology unemplyment capitalism depression elizeryudkowsky humans singularityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65e6d3e19b3f/Against "Innovation" #CNIE20142014-05-16T17:49:16+00:00
https://hackeducation.com/2014/05/14/innovation-cnie-2014
robertogrecoaudreywatters 2014 edtech culture technology californianideology innovation disruption highered highereducation individualism google googleglass education schools learning ds106 siliconvalley meritocracy rebeccasolnit class society poverty ideology capitalism novelty change transformation invention language salvation entrepreneurship revolution business karlmarx josephschumpeter johnpatrickleary claytonchristensen sustainability mooc moocs markets destruction creativedestruction publiceducation progress justice collectivism libertarianismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:56ab28a1a5e2/What Does (and Doesn’t) Progressive Education Plus Technology Look Like? Thoughts on AltSchool2014-05-12T23:11:49+00:00
http://modernlearners.com/what-does-and-doesnt-progressive-education-plus-technology-look-like-thoughts-on-altschool/
robertogrecoAnother borrowed idea applied to AltSchool is the School of One model in New York. Students at AltSchool work from an individual playlist the teacher puts together that’s keyed to his or her interests. The teacher can keep track of student progress on a dashboard, ensure the tasks have been completed, and adjust activities depending on how students are progressing. For example, recently, AltSchool teacher Carolyn Wilson assigned a video about California’s delta to one student, paired with questions about how water moves through the system.
“He moved it to the ‘done’ column, but it wasn’t done, so I told him he was turning me into a screaming monster,” Wilson said. When she checked his work and saw he hadn’t finished, Wilson tagged that assignment with a screaming monster icon and a note to the student telling him to go back and answer the questions and complete a reflection.
As a video filmed during a visit to the school by Techcrunch’s Leena Rao [http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/01/meet-altschool-the-startup-that-is-going-to-reinvent-primary-education/ ] also highlights, the talk about “personalization” is translated into a “choice” about which assignments to do next, a “choice” of whether to watch a video or complete a digital worksheet.
Although students have access to tablets, their usage of technology hardly seems transformational. The tools are used to deliver content and quizzes and to track students. Indeed, that seems to be the major point of using technology: for data collection and analysis to be used by adults (parents, teachers, school engineers). The tracking doesn’t just happen through the tablets either; the schoolroom is equipped with video cameras [http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/former-googlers-altschool-raises-33m-from-founders-fund-and-a16z-to-reimagine-primary-education/ ]
so that teachers can just press a button to document a moment. Ventilla says that teachers, parents and students who have been able to actually watch a breakthrough moment or a moment of breakdown have been able to help their children learn better. AltSchool has built audio hardware to better record in noisy settings, and video is uploaded to an online CMS that both parents and teachers can access.
Can we reconcile education as surveillance and education as a practice of freedom? I’m not so sure.
A New Model? An Old Model?
AltSchool recently raised [http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/former-googlers-altschool-raises-33m-from-founders-fund-and-a16z-to-reimagine-primary-education/ ] $33 million from Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Harrison Metal, John Doerr, Jonathan Sackler, Learn Capital, and Omidyar Network. (It had previously raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding. [http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/altschool ]) As San Francisco Chronicle writer Jill Tucker remarked [http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/AltSchool-gets-33-million-in-venture-capital-5327204.php ] about the $33 million, “In the public school world, that much money would be enough to support a small school district for a year or pay the annual salaries of more than 400 experienced teachers. Ventilla plans to mostly spend it on engineers. The AltSchool computer whizzes will design software and applications that make payroll, hiring, admissions, facilities services, purchasing and other services — typically done by a school district’s central office staff — electronically seamless, Ventilla said.”
“We’re not trying to make existing schools work better. We are trying to actually advance a new model of a school.” – Max Ventilla
“We’re not trying to make existing schools work better,” Ventilla has said in several interviews. [http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/the-one-room-schoolhouse-goes-high-tech/ ] “We are trying to actually advance a new model of a school.”
AltSchool raises so many questions about what progressive education plus technology should or could look like; it certainly shows what I’d argue is the sort of superficial approach to “fixing education” that’s all too common from Silicon Valley technologists. Read a book or two; then start an education company. How hard can it be?
One of the things that I find particularly fascinating (and frightening) about this approach is how little it knows about the history of education, particularly the history of progressive education, not to mention theories of constructionism (something you would think would be more readily adopted by technologists.) In several of its articles about the startup, Techcrunch cites Ventilla [http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/18/former-googlers-altschool-raises-33m-from-founders-fund-and-a16z-to-reimagine-primary-education/ ] saying, ““If a time traveler came back from the early 1900s, and looked at schools, they would look relatively the same. And there’s something wrong with that, because children and our world have changed.” It’s as if John Dewey, his work at the turn of the century not to mention his legacy in progressive education, never existed.
Of course, much of the praise and the hype for Ventilla’s new startup is a result of Ventilla himself — not for this particular idea or this particular implementation. Ventilla is a well-known person in the technology sector who has just raised tens of millions of dollars from some of the best-known investors in Silicon Valley.
But as we try to better articulate better ideas and highlight schools and school leaders who are actually implementing them, I’m still left with that line from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “That is not it at all. That is not what I meant, at all.”
How can we help make our meaning — a vision for learning transformed — clearer?"
[My comment:
Thank you for writing this, Audrey.
There is one point that I’d like to add. It’s something like the inverse of what Alfie Kohn writes here [http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/progressive.htm ]:
A school that is culturally progressive is not necessarily educationally progressive. An institution can be steeped in lefty politics and multi-grain values; it can be committed to diversity, peace, and saving the planet — but remain strikingly traditional in its pedagogy. In fact, one can imagine an old-fashioned pour-in-the-facts approach being used to teach lessons in tolerance or even radical politics.
Schools birthed in The Californian Ideology [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology ] are going to struggle to be politically progressive. Neither progressive politics nor progressive education are likely to be effective unless they go hand in hand."]]>audreywatters 2014 progressive education progressiveeducation altschool johndewey freedom surveillance coercion control maxventilla pedagogy technology google montessori learning leadership californianideology comments jalfredprufrock tseliot gardnercampbellhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e91b15f323b8/The Technologists' Siren Song - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education2014-03-11T23:11:03+00:00
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